The Digital Comics Museum

Many dealers and collectors are encasing their comics in Lucite to preserve them and raise their value.
All fine and well, but it makes it impossible to actually read the stories inside the covers!
And, to get the best quality covers to create the Atomic Kommie Comics™ kollectible kollection, I end up either borrowing / renting (Yes, you can rent comics!) or outright purchasing "slabbed" books that I don't already have in my collection.

So, to correct my lack of knowledge on some books, I'm finally registering with several of the on-line Golden Age comics archives who are, happily, keeping the stories and art of the 1930s-50s available to all.
First up is the Digital Comics Museum.
I'll let them speak for themselves...
We are the #1 site for downloading FREE public domain Golden Age Comics.
All files here have been researched by our staff and users to make sure they are copyright free and in the public domain.
To start downloading just register an account and enjoy these great comic books.
We do not charge per download and the goal of project is to archive these comic books online and make them widely available.
I couldn't have said it better, myself!
So, if you're a Golden Age fan, register and enjoy!

Then, go to Atomic Kommie Comics™ and pick up a couple of Golden Age collectibles! (That part is optional, but appreciated!)

Design of the Week--Don Winslow of the Navy

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
Today, it's Don Winslow of the Navy, with Old Glory flying proudly behind him and a banner with John Paul Jones' famous quote below him.
It's a perfect Memorial Day gift for the WWII or Korea veteran in your life, kitschy, yet patriotic, and there are few of the Greatest Generation who didn't read the inspiring multi-media (comics, movies, radio, novels) star during that period!

PLUS: A Free bonus from us to you: downloadable mp3s of the Don Winslow of the Navy dramatic radio show!

Now THAT'S a DEAL!

I go to Borders Books on a fairly regular basis.
Have a Borders Rewards account, and the coupons prove invaluable for saving money both for myself and for gifts!
This week's coupon was for dvd and music box sets.
While I didn't find the dvd set I was looking for (Torchwood: Children of Earth, btw) I did find The Comics: the Complete Collection by Brian Walker (which combines the two previous volumes into one MASSIVE hardcover) for only...wait for it...$9.97! It's normally $19.99!

I collect these sort of reference books with abandon!
I have Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics, Penguin Book of Comics, all Ron Goulart's books, etc.
But, up to now, even the reasonable $19.99 price point was just a bit much on my currently-tight budget.
But $9.97!!!
Even though I almost got a hernia lugging it home, it was worth it!

Brian Walker is a comic strip writer-artist himself (Beetle Bailey and Hi & Lois) as well as the son of legendary creator Mort Walker.
The book is filled not only with stuff from his family's personal collection, unseen by the general public, but stories and anecdotes that were previously-known only to industry insiders!

Pick it up (if you can...it's HEAVY!)  ;-)

Fantastic Femmes--Tisha Campbell-Martin

You're thinking, "Tisha Campbell? The woman from Martinand My Wife and Kids? Talented comedienne, but how does she qualify as a Fantastic Femme?"
Pretty damn easily!
Her first film appearance was as one of the "Greek Chorus" trio who sang plot points in the movie version of the Broadway musical Little Shop of Horrors (based on the 1960 low-budget movie The Little Shop of Horrors)
She's done other genre stuff as well, primarily animation voices.
So, there!

Genre appearances include:

Little Shop of Horrors

(Crystal, performer: "Prologue", "Skid Row", "Da-Doo", "Grow for Me", "Some Fun Now", "Dentist', "Suddenly Seymour, "SupperTime", "Medley", "Meek Shall Inherit", "Finale", "Don't Feed the Plants!")

DuckMan(Ebony Sable)
Down to Earth[2001](cameo)
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
(Sledge)

Check out...
Tisha's MySpace page
Tisha Campbell (FanSite)

Bad Grrrls, Bad Grrrls, What'cha Gonna Do...?

Western Comic Adventures™ has expanded the Women Outlaws section!
Twice as much female mayhem set in the Old West as before!
Twice as much gunplay!
And now...catfights!
(and there are those who say we're not subtle at Atomic Kommie Comics™!)